60 FPS is Modern Warfare 3's "Competitive Edge"

[Zabriskie Point]

wait, isn't 6o fps still kinda slow for a pc? or am i in another room again? is this thread for consoles or pc? because i'm a pc-only gamer. I'm so confused!

The human eye can't see the difference between 60 FPS and 200 FPS. Most monitor's refresh rate is 60. There's no difference between 60 and 500, so no, 60 isn't low at all.

 

[Snotnarok]

It's a weak 'edge' considering Activision has been running their games off a modified Doom 3 engine since...forever. And let's be honest with their yearly releases they're not going to ever make a new engine and they're gonna burn it out like Guitar Hero.

 

[The_Prophet]

So it's just a bunch of techno-wanking, then?

I was thinking of Hz not fps. Silly me.

Bet that mistake hertz.

Why has such a pun culture grown up here?

Not that I haven't done some of that myself.

Because clearly the Escapist is the most intellectual site around and such riff-raff shouldn't be allowed, eh wot wot. (This is towards some of the people that actually go aggressive against such puns, not the person quoted)
On topic, I pretty much agree with what Root and Hazabaza have said.

 

[ALPHATT]

Every human being can notice the difference. The question is, do they care?

 

[Shia-Neko-Chan]

hmmm...

Pro gamers for any game always strive for 60 fps for that competitive edge. There aren't any exceptions.

In Starcraft, CSS, and many more games, they turn their graphics down for the smoothest gameplay for that competitive edge, so I'm not sure exactly why everyone's opposing this view, if not just out of hate for the CoD series.

Not that I actually like CoD that much, but I'm just being honest.

 

[Willsor]

"You can go out and name your engine and call it whatever you want, right. You know, I've done that before; I've seen that trick and the bottom line is, [Modern Warfare 3] will run at 60 frames a second. Not sure any of our competitors will."

BF3 Beta runs at 60fps for me, so that pretty much invalidates their whole sales pitch for me at least.

 

[Brynar]

"You can go out and name your engine and call it whatever you want, right. You know, I've done that before; I've seen that trick and the bottom line is, [Modern Warfare 3] will run at 60 frames a second. Not sure any of our competitors will."

BF3 Beta runs at 60fps for me, so that pretty much invalidates their whole sales pitch for me at least.

Eeeeeeeexactly.

Although I would rather take a CONSTANT fps of 30 than a fluctuation betwen say 35 and 60.